It is an undeniable empirical fact that a human fetus is a member of the species homo
sapiens from the moment of conception. There is thus an important sense in which it is a …

Abortionist arguments take different forms. Three kinds of argument in particular are
common:(a) the (early) human foetus is not a human being; so (an early) abortion is not a …

Every human being is a human person. While this statement seems innocent enough, it
provokes strong opposition in some circles. Many would be inclined to see it as a truism and …

Inspired by Patrick Lee's “A Christian Philosopher's View of Recent Directions in the
Abortion Debate,” this essay raises the question of how effective philosophical arguments …

The human is an area in which the interests of science and religion meet. The nature of man
as male and female, the components of human behavior, the relationship between …

Abortion is the issue that first brought evangelical Christians and other cultural conservatives
into the arena of bioethics. Although today bioethics is dominated by other issues that are …

I discuss three topics. First, there is a philosophical connecting thread between several
recent trends in the abortion discussion, namely, the issue of our animal nature, and …

Proponents of embryo-destructive research, abortion, and abortifacient contra ceptives
sometimes worry about tensions between competing intuitions. There is, first, the intuition …

It is not for me to attempt any detailed biological discussion of the conceptus or fcetus. I
assume what seems to be agreed among biologists, that it is not an appendage or organ …

From the standpoint of a Christian philosopher, heeding the teaching and exhortations of
Pope John Paul II and previous popes, I examine three directions in which the recent …